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Plant-eating

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Plant´-eat`ing
a.1.Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
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Adj.1.plant-eating - (of animals) feeding on plants
phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
herbivorous - feeding only on plants
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